Camera cable

[taimatsu]

I seem to have mislaid the USB cable for my camera. It may be in the boxes of stuff my father is keeping for me for a few weeks (this is very likely) but it will be three weeks at least before I find out. It seems sensible to have a spare anyway, so I intend to buy another. I'm just not sure where.

I bought the camera (a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LS2) from John Lewis, and they might do it; but my websearching suggests it's possibly not stocked any more and I'm uncertain where else I could look. Any tips, anyone?

Comments

[arachne.livejournal.com]

Try Jessops maybe?

[simont]

Can't help you with a cable for the camera itself, but if nobody else can either then a fallback option might be to get a USB memory-card reader. I got one from my local nice computer shop for under £15; it's a tiny square thing with a USB cable and slots around the edges that take about ten different kinds of flash card.

[borusa.livejournal.com]

It looks like one of the standard USB cables to me - looking at the pictures, anyway. I've got a spare mini-usb cable you can have (free with every device bought ever these days). If it's smaller than that, as the one for my camera is, then I have one, but it's not spare. However, I need a spare, so I could try and source a couple.

[taimatsu]

It seems to be very small indeed. I have somehow acquired a cable much like the one I need but labelled 'Canon' (is it yours?) on which the camera end is too big. If your cable is to hand, could you bring it over tomorrow? Then I can work out what kind I need and maybe get a generic one, plus possibly nick yours for five minutes to download stuff off my camera. :)

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Yepyep.

Sounds like it's a bit like mine indeed. We can give it a go.

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

http://www.7dayshop.com have a whole collection of mini usb cables. From memory they also do cheap card readers.

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=101984

[thinkstoomuch.livejournal.com]

I am awash with cables of various sorts - if you don't pick one up from someone else first I probably have one.

I've never seen a camera with a proprietory cable, the standard on cameras is a usb mini-a plug. I bet Dixons will have one for cheaper than a camera store, if you do want to buy one.

[thinkstoomuch.livejournal.com]

Sorry, make that mini-b. :)

[oneplusme.livejournal.com]

You laugh, but I've seen at least one no-name device ship with an A-to-A cable... (Perfect for all your motherboard-frying needs!)

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

I suspected it was a micro usb cable you need as that is what my digital camera, my camcorder and my mobile phone all take.

After a quick look found this on ebay which lists your camera I believe on the compatability list

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-A-Mini-B-Digital-Camera-Cable-2m-Canon-Sony-JVC_W0QQitemZ300070510361QQihZ020QQcategoryZ43443QQcmdZViewItem

[kisai.livejournal.com]

sounds like a mini-usb, you can get them at any store. There's like 6 varients of mini-usb, but they make universal cables, you just pop on the right end for the camera.

Failing that, get a cheap memory card reader.